Feds question Indiana's efforts to educate migrant workers' children

9:49 PM,
Dec. 19, 2012

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Indiana never spent millions of dollars the federal government provided to help make sure the children of migrant workers get a good education, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Education.

The federal government awarded the state a total of about $12 million for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, but the Indiana Department of Education didn't claim the grants, the report obtained this week by The Associated Press says.

Federal officials who reviewed Indiana's program in March expressed concern in the report that the state wasn't spending enough to ensure that migrant children ...